GOD would not only have a sin offering for the consecration of the priests, which we considered in our last, but He must have a burnt offering for their acceptance in His presence.
Let us notice first that the ram for the burnt offering was to be brought, and Aaron and his sons were to put their hands upon its head, just as they did in the sin offering, but there is this difference: the sin offering became identified, with the offerors and their sins; whereas in the burnt offering they became identified with it, therefore its perfections were put down to the offerors.
All the details about the burnt offering are given to us in the first chapter of Leviticus.
It had to be without any blemish, as well as the sin offering, because both were a type of Christ as the perfect One; but these two offerings were giving us two aspects, or views, of the death of Christ. The burnt offering being a type of Christ in His perfection, even in offering Himself up to God, for He said,
It therefore was accepted for the offerors, so that the offerors could be accepted in God’s presence.
How wonderful is all this for all those who have Christ as their Saviour; they can say, Not only has Christ died for my sins, but He is accepted for me, and I am accepted in Him. My sins are gone through Christ my sin offering, and now I stand in all His perfection as the burnt offering.
This is what God has done for us in Christ, through His wonderful love, “Love that transcends our highest powers
Demands our soul, our life, our all.”
ML 08/13/1922